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JACKSON NEEDS
A COUNTY
HIGH SCHOOL
SWDL. 48—NO. 8
BROWN FINDS
LABOR SCARCE
PRODUCTION WILL BE CUT
DOWN AS A RESULT. FARM
* ERS CANNOT COMPETE WITH
PRICES PAID IN CITIES
ATLANTA.—Agricultural condi
tions, in the opinion of Commission
er J. J. Brown, who has just return
ed from the rural districts, was never
as serious as at this time.
“So much ha sheen said about the
shortage of farm labor,” says Mr.
Brown, “that every time any com
ment on it appears in print now the
public is disposed to pass it up as
‘just another bit of agitation.’ It
is presenting, to my mind, a most se
rious aspect.
“There need be no revival of that
talk about the ‘farmers striking’ be
cause labor in every other line is
using the strike to force it s desires.
The truth of the present situation
that the farmer is going to find him
..self compelled to restrict his opera
tions very largely to the production
of what will be required to provision
and care for his own family, and
t t s s by all thought of of a surplus
f Jjr he market through sheer inabil
ity to find help to carry forward his
production, should he attempt it. To
that end it will be an enforced
‘strike’ of the farmers.
“In the past week I have visited a
number of farms where, as I saw it,
the situation is just about hopeless.
The high” rate of pay and the unpre
cedented short hours of work being
held out as inducements by the city
enterprises has robbed the country
of just about all the labor there ever
,w.as to be had. I went into one town
myself the other day and spent the
entire day trying to pick up two or
three men to put to farm work. At
the'close of the day I not only was
no better off than when I started,
my eyes were opened to the
fact that it is utterly useless for the
farmer to attempt to try to enter
into a competition with city busi
ness in the race for labor.
“The upshot of this whole thing,
in my opinion, is going to be that
Georgia will be one of the states thi s
year which will fall in production
and I fear there is danger that we
■may drop down numerically in the
agricultural production list.
“This condition of affairs is not
attributable to any disinclination on
the part of the farmer, for it cer
tainly isn’t to his advantage to let
-J-iig acreage lie idle when he has it, if
Jtpe could in any vny keep these
acres at work. At the same time,
Fow can the farmer produce suffic
ient for a marketable surplus when
every bit of his production, over and
above the demands of his own fam
ily, is goings to prove an expense ito
him rather than a profit. But, even
more serious than hat, taking this
prospective result a s a whole into
consideration, is the actual fact that
he can’t produce as he has in re
cent past years, even w T ith a loss
to himself, because he can’t get the
men with which to carry on his
•work.
> “I found farmer s in the past week
who are seriously disposed to sell off
their work stock and implements,
down to just vAat they can use with
members of their families, and re
strict their entire operations to that
basis.
“I assume that the condition in
the rural sections of the whole South
are probably the same, but I only
know, of my own knowledge, what
they are in Georgia. In this state
they are serious—Quite serious.
INFLUENZA LESS FATAL
THAN FORMER EPIDEMIC
Medical Men Think Peak of Dan
ger Now Orer
L WASHINGTON. —The mortality
I rate due tipthe influenza epidemic
this yeaHrns about half of that in
1918, a statement today by
the Public Health Service, announc
ing that the present epidemic appar
ently had reached its peak.
“A comparison,” the statement
said, “of the excess mortality rate
per 100,000 of population for the
respective peak weeks of 1920 and
1918 shows: Chicago, 1,886, com
pared vv.th 4,620 in 1920: Milwau
kee, 1,434, as compared with 1,915;
Washington, 2,072, compared with
9,789.
It might be possible for the roads
and" streets to be in a worse condi
tion, but such a thing is hard to
imagine. The entire state is aroused
over bad roads. The incessant rams
have left the highways in an almost
impassable condition* . .
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS
JUDGE W. T. NEWMAN
PASSES IN ATLANTA
DISTINGUISHED JUDGE FOR
THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF
GEORGIA PASSED AWAY IN
ATLANTA. SERVED 37 YEARS
ATLANTA.—Judge William T.
Newman, who for 37 years presided
over the United States district court
for the northern district of Georgia,
died suddenly Saturday morning at
his home in this city at the age of
76 years. For the past year his
health has been failing and his death
was not unexpected. He passed away
in his sleep, quietly and peacefully
without any pain.
Judge Newman, who was a native
of East Tennessee and a Confeder
ate veteran, sett'ed in Atlanta af
ter the war between the states and
was appointed judge by President
Cleveland thirty-seven years ago.
He leaves a wife and three children.
Judge Newman was known all
over Georgia and was one of the
best beloved judges that ever set on
any bench in this state. His death
will be mourned by a host of friends
throughout the state.
COUNTY TAKES ITS
QUOTA IN BANK
INDICATIONS POINT TO AN OV
ERSUBSCRIPTION OF STOCK.
COMMITTEES MET MONDAY
AND MADE A CANVASS
Indications are now. that Butts
county has oversubscribed her quota
of the stock of the Georgia Cotton
Bank and Trust Corporation.
A meeting was held in Jackson
Monday at noon and a canvass made
by the chairman and district commit
tees. Mr. S. H. Mays is county
chairman and two or more leading
citizens were appointed to raise
stock in the various districts. Fol
lowing the meeting in the justice
court room a canvass was‘”made of
Jackson and community and late
Monday afternoon several large sub
scriptions were reported.
Butts county has a quota of 160
shares, or $20,000. Work will be
kept up throughout the week and a
total of two hundred shares will be
probably subscribed in the county.
A report sent out from Atlanta
stated that Governor Dorsey had
succeeded in raising over $700,000
of the 2,000,000 capital stock and
that a charter for the Georgia Cot
ton Bank and Trust Corporation
would soon be applied for.
MR. ANSLEY HAM DIED
AT NEWNAN SATURDAY
NEWNAN, GA., Feb. 16.—Mr.
Ansley Ham, 28 years of age, died
Saturday night at 8 o’clock after an
attack of influenza followed by
pneumonia,at the residence of his
sister, Miss Cleone Ham, 33 West
Washington street. The deceased
was the son of Rev. V. A. Ham, of
Montgomery, Ala., he having moved
to that place several years ago from
Newnan. Young Mr. Ham was wide
ly known through this section of the
state, having been reared here, and
for the past several years wa s trav
eling salesman for the Manget Bros.,
wholesale grocery house. He is sur
vived by his father, Rev. V. A. Ham,
of Montgomery; Miss Cleone Ham
and Mrs. V. E. Manget, of Newnan;
Mr. Neal Ham, of Golden, Colo.; and
Mr. Howard Ham, of Cape May, N.
JL The funeral was conducted from
the Central Baptist church by the
pastor, Dr. Frank L. Hardy, at 10
o’clock Monday morning after
which the body was laid to rest in
Oak Hill cemetery'.
Mr. Ham was a nephew of Messrs.
J. H., S. O. and T. W. Ham of Jack
son. Mr. T. W. Ham attended the
funeral which was held Monday
morning.
RUBBER TIRES THEY
MAKE AT AKRON, O.
At Akron, “the rubber city,”
which since 1910 has increased its
population from 69,000 to 200,000,
things are booming. More than
80.000 tires a day are leaving the
city, worth more than 2,500,000
and containing some 800 bales of
cotton. Akron With its 146 indus
tries, practically all in rubber or re
lated lines, is today making 66 per
cent of all the tires manufactured
in the world. And it can’t make
enough.—Commerce and Finance.
JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY FEBRUARY 20, 1920
LANSING QUITS
WILSON CABINET
UNABLE TO AGREE WITH CHIEF
EXECUTIVE SECRETARY OF
STATE HANDS HIS RESIGNA
TION—OF WIDE INTEREST
WASHINGTON. Rebuked by
President Wilson for calling cabinet
meetings during his illness, Secre
tary Lansing has resigned.
The president has accepted the
resignation “with appreciation” and
Mr. Lansing becomes the second sec
retary of state to leave the adminis
tration over a disagreement with his
chief.
Although the correspondence be
tween Mr. Lansing and the presi
dent makes the calling of the cabi
net meetings the incident which leads
directly to the secretary’s resigna
! tion, persons “on the inside” of the
administration who know what has
been going onsay that was only an
incident and that the real reasons
for the break go back over a period
of many months and come from fun
damental differences of opinion in
policy.
The disagreements between the
president and the head of the State
Department even antedate the entry
of the United States into the war.
The relations between the two men
almost reached the breaking point
early in 1917 when Mr. Lansing is
sued his celebrated statement say
ing the United States was daily be
ing drawn nearer and nearer the
war. By some, it was taken to fore
cast the entry of the United States.
The president made every effort to
overtake the statement after it had
been given out at the State Depart
ment, but it was impossible.
When Mr. Lansing went as a
member of the American peace del
egation to Paris more differences
developed. With other members of
the American mission he was not in
accord with the president’s idea of
making the treaty of peace and the
covenant of he League of Nations
one and the same inseperable docu
ment. It was Mr. Lansing’s idea
that s uch a P^ an would delay the
ratification of a peace treaty and in
this, he was supported by Henry
White and E. M. House.
DRY GOODS MERGER
JOINS 1,600 STORES
NEW MERCANTILE MERGER
HAS THREE QUARTER BIL
LION CAPITAL. LARGE IN
TERESTS ARE REPRESENTED
RICHMOND, Va. —Formation of
a mercantile corporation with three
quarters of a billion dollars capital
is announced here today with the
return of the Southern Wholesale
Dry Goods Association.
The nevj combination is said to
have quietly purchased 1,600 stores
within the past few weeks. The an
nouncement shows that the entire
property of J. L. and P. Gilmer, of
Winston-Salem, N. C., with stores
located in various parts of that
state, figure in the transaction. The
firm owns stores in Greensboro,
High Point, Durham and Lexington,
N. C., and Roanoke, Va.
Complete holdings of the Mont
gomery Ward, United Candy Com
pany, Marler-Dalton-Gilmer Com
pany are also included.
George J. Wheeling, of the United
Cigar Stores, the United Retail
Store s Corporation of New York,
and James B. Duke, of the American
Tobacco Company, of New York,
are said to be the backers of the new
corporation.
Announcement tonight is that an
application has been filed in Dele
ware foe a charter.
Besides the various stores obtain
ed, it is said the corporation has
gained control of several well known
textile mills the names of which
are being Withheld.
Discussing the* new coalition to
day, Norman H. Johnson, secretary
of the Southern Wholesale Dry
Goods Association, declared this is
the largest business transaction ever
recorded in the mercantile world.
PRICE OF BREAD IN
MACON 13 CENTS LOAF
The price of a 16 ounce loaf of
bread has been fixed by the fair
price committee in Macon at 13
cents. The wholesale price is 10%
cents. Recently the bakeries in Ma
con announced an increase in price
from 10 to 15 cents per loaf. The
fair price committee Refused to al
low this charge, fixing the price
as above named.
HON. C. L. REDMAN
- FOR STATE SENATOR
PROMINENT JACKSON ATTOR
NEY ANNOUNCES FOR SENA
TOR FROM THE 26TH DIS
TRICT.
Hon. C. L. Redman, prominent
member of the Jackson bar and one
of the best known lawyers in this
section, makes announcement this
week for state senator from the
Twenty-Sixth district, embracing the
counties of Butts, Fayette and Spal
ding.
The formal entry of Col. Redman,
v.ho has been looked upon for some
time as a likely candidate, will be
of wide interest in political circles.
Col. Redman is an attorney of many
years’ experience and successful
practice and stands high in the esti
mation of his home people. If elect
ed he can be depended on to repre
sent the twenty-sixth district in the
upper house of the general assembly
in an able alert and satisfactory
manner. He will have the active and
warm support of a large body of
voters who will be pleased at his en
try into the political arena.
It is not known at this time if
Col. Redman will have opposition.
The name of Hon. J. H. Mills has
been mentioned in that connection,
but whether or not he will make the
race is not known.
CANDIDATES MUST
PAY BY FEB. 24
JUST HALF THE NUMBER OF
OFFICE SEEKERS HAVE PAID
ASSESSMENTS. TIME EX
PIRES NEXT TUESDAY
Up to the first of this week just
fifteen of the twianey nine candi
dates seeking office in Butts county
had paid their assessments. The
remaining fourteen have until 12
o’clock noon, of Tuesday, February
24, to pay in andget their names on
the ■ ballot.
In the last county primary in 1916
there were exactly thirty candidates.
This year there are 29—one less
than four years ago.
The total vote cast in 1916 was
1,429. This year the registration is
somewhat larger than it has ever
been before. ®
All candidates who qualify by
paying their assessments will, ac
cording to the rules of the executive
committee, have their names placed
on the official ballot in alphabetical
order.
Candidates are required, by the
rules, to pay their assessments to J.
D. Jones, secretary of the executive
committee.
ARRANGE FOR NEXT
WINTER’S COAL SUPPLY
Every coal-consuming industry in
the country should now make plans
to place its contracts in the early
spring for shipment during the early
summer and fall of as large a pro
portion of the coal needed as pos
sible. Every ton of coal hat can be
mined and delivered before next
fall should be contracted for within
the next month or two. Railroad
facilities next winter will be even
more congested than now, because,
regardless of governmental or pri
vate control, it i s physically and fi
nancially impossible to enlarge their
facilities sufficiently to handle next
winter’s business promptly.—Manu
facturers Record.
CALIFORNIA LEADS U. S.
IN AUTOS PER CAPITA
Georgia Ranks 37 With a Car For
Every 24.4 Inhabitant
OMAHA, NEB.—California is
first, Nebraska and South Dakota
gecond and third, and lowa fourth
in automobiles per capita on Decem
ber 31, 1919, according to a table
compiled by the Omaha chamber of
Commerce. The figures were secured
direct from the person in charge of
automobile registration in each state.
Trucks are included with pleasure
cars, because m most states the two
types of vehicles are not separted.
California has 493,463 cars, or
6.2 per capita.
Georgia has 134,826 automobiles,
or 24.4 per capita.
The total number of automobiles
in the United States ia 7,459,607,
or 13.8 per capita.
GEORGIA IS FIFTH
IN A. E. F. LOSSES
TENNESSEE SUFFERED .HEAV
IEST OF NINE STATES OF
SOUTHEAST IN WAR. VIR
GINIA’S TOTAL IS SECOND
WASHINGTON.—Tennessee suf
fered heaviest of the nine southern
states east of the Mississippi river,
in casualties among her officers and
men who were members of the Ex
peditionary Forces during the
World War, Virginia’s losses were
second, North Carolina’s third and
Alabama’s and Georgia’s fourth and
fifth, respectively. A statistical
summary of all casualties prepared
in the office of the adjutant general
of the army and just announced
shows the toal casualties of these
southern states to have been 37,266,
including officers and men, out of
a grand total of 302,612 for the
entire country. These casualties in
clude losses from every cause which
put the men out of action.
The total casualties for each state
follow: Tennessee, 6,190; Virginia,
6,130; North Carolina, 5,799; Ala
bama, 5,100: Georgia, 4,425; South
Carolina, 3,919; Mississippi, 2,303;
Louisiana, 2,109; Florida, 1,171.
North Carolina’s losses from of
ficers and men killed in action were
heaviest, numbering 684; Tennes
see’s losses from that cause were
second, totaling 680 and Virginia’s
third, aggregating 604. In death
from wounds Virginia was first with
291, Tennessee second with 250 and
North Carolina third with 238.
The summary of the casualties
for Georgia follows:
DECEASED Officers Men
Killed in action 43 306
Died of woundg 12 140
Died of disease 20 773
Died of accident 7 159
Drowned , 0 6
Suicide 2 0
Murder or homicide 0 2
Execution —general
court martial 0 1
Other known cauess 1 12
Cause undetermined __ 1 27
Presumed dead 0 19
Total Dead 85 1444
—1530
PRISONERS /
Accounted for 0 0
Died 1 0
Repatriated 7 36
Total Prisoners 8 36
—44
WOUNDED
Slightly 101 1003
Severely. _ 71 1044
Degree undetermined 51 581
Total Wounded 223 2628
Missing in action 0 0
Total casualties 316 4109
—4423
governorTorsey
RIDES TOO FAST
WHILE EN ROUTE TO DELIVER
SPEECH, EXCEEDS SPEED
LIMIT AT HAPEVILLE AND
PUTS UP $5.75
ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 14.—Gov
ernor Dorsey paid a fine of $5.75
for speeding today when the auto
mobile in which he was enroute to
Newnan to make an address exceed
ed the 15 mile an hour speed lipiit
of Hapeville, Georgia.
The special policemen recently
put on to break up speeding through
Hapeville apparently did not recog
nize the Governor who, however,
went to the mayor of the town and
after apologizing insisted on putting
up the money for the fine before
leaving. Claude A. West, the Gov
ernor’s executive secretary, was
driving the automobile.
MAIL RATES HAVE KILLED
2500 PAPERS SINCE 1918
“Excessive” end “Onerous” Rates
Are Blamed
WASHINGTON. Present “ex
cessive” and “onerous” second class
mail rates were blamed, as the main
cause for suspension of 2,500
newspapers since July 1, 1918, by
Victor Rosewater of Omaha, appear
ing today before the House Post
Office Committee as spokesman for
The American Newspaper Publish
ers’ Association. He urged reduc
tion of mail charges and a congres
sional inquiry into the cost Of the
service for publications.
Estimates that the government
lost $70,001M/00 a year on the old
rate were* ch|jUenged by Mr. Rose
water, loss was “pure
ly a bookkeeping figure that includes
$58,000,000/lo4t free deliv
ery.”
MAKE 1920
A YEAR OF
COMMUNITY GROWTH
$2.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
HERBERT HOOVER IS
FIRST MAN OFFERED
GAINESVILLE ADMIRERS PUT
NAME ON PRESIDENTIAL
TICKET. ONE HUNDRED
NAMES TO THE PETITION
GAINESVILLE—Herbert Hoov
er’s friends here have qualified him
a 3 the first man to go before the
voters of Georgia in the Presidential
preference primary April 20, a re
quest having gone to the State Com
mittee from 100 of his Democratic
admirers here in compliance with
the rules for nominating candidates
before the primary.
H. 11. Perry, who circulated the
petition, says it was gotton up in a
hurry, but he has the necessary hun
dred names. He could get twice as
many with a little spare time, he
declares.
INCREASE SHOWN IN THE
AMOUNT COTTON CONSUMED
WASHINGTON.—Cotton, exclu
sive of linters, consumed during
January totaled 591,725 bales, com
pared with 556,883 bales during
January, 1918, the census bureau
announced.
DRIVE IN NEAR
EAST BEGINS 22
COUNTY CHAIRMAN HOPES TO
MAKE GOOD SHOWING IN
BUTTS COUNTY. CANVASS
TO BE MADE OF CITY
The campaign for funds to relieve
the suffering of the Jews and other
starving peoples of Europe will be
gin February 22. Mr. S. H. Eiseman
is county chairman in Butts county.
The chairman will be away in
New York the first of the week but
hopesvto make a canvass upon his
return to Jackson. He plans to so
licit subscriptions in the business
part of Jackson, ainl everybody in
the community who feels inclined
to help this cause may send their do
nation to Mr. Eiseman. The cam
paign is not denominational and the
money raised will be used for the
relief of all classes an dcreeds in
the vvir-torn countries.
No quota has been assigned Butts
county, Mr. Eiseman states, though
he hopes to raise as much money as
possible. All over the country it in '
planned to raise $35,000,000.
The need for help in Armenia and
other counries is said to be most
urgent. People by the millions are
reported to be in a starving condi
ti6n and arc subsisting on the boun
ty of the Red Coss and other organ
izations. Four cents a day each, will
provide the bread and soup to keep
these people alive through the win
ter, but unless help is speedily ex
tended millions will die of hunger,
and cold.
FEDERAL PENSIONS ASKED IN
PETITION BY SOUTH’S HEROES
Request Same Payment at Federal
Pentionera
A petition has been drawn up, aid
is now ready for the signatures of
confederate veterans, v.’iich asks for
a law increasing the pensions of
confederate veterans to the amount
now received by the federal soldeirs
of the civil war.
All confederate soldiers v.’io
are in ''Atlanta are urged
to see Captain William H. H. Phelps,
formerly in command of Company
“H,” Third Georgia battalion, and
affix their signature to the petition.
Out-of-town veterans are also re
quested to communicate with Cap
tain Phelps as to their desire in the
matter.
The petition reads a3 follows:
To the Congresg of the United
States Government:
Hon. W. D. Upshaw, Fifth District,
State of Georgia.
We, the undersigned ex-Confeder
ate soldiers, by our signatures af
fixed below, do earnestly petition
the Congress of the United States
Government to frame and enact
such pension laws as will place us
upon the same footing of the ex-
United States Soldiers of the civil
war. This February 10th, 1920.
No improvement is noted in the
newsprint situation. The v.eekly
newspapers are getting just enough
paper to fill their actual require
ments. In the meantime there has
been no reduction in consumption by
the city dailies.